I'd say in crew mortality rate some of those tanks life spans were measured in days so wasn't the crew mortality rate hell t34 Russians stopped painting them paint didn't even get to dry on most of em anyways

The Germans enjoyed fighting the IS2 as they always knew when it was reloading due to the fact that they had to depress the gun to its maximum to load a shell. The IS2 shouldn't even be in the top 20 nevermind top 5.

Ok then.

5. T-44A (the JS-2 model 1944 with forged hull loses this spot to the T-44A)

4. Panther Ausf. D (this is oddly enough the first version of the Panther)

I'd say in crew mortality rate some of those tanks life spans were measured in days so wasn't the crew mortality rate hell t34 Russians stopped painting them paint didn't even get to dry on most of em anyways

5. T-44A (the JS-2 model 1944 with forged hull loses this spot to the T-44A)

4. Panther Ausf. D (this is oddly enough the first version of the Panther)

3. Tiger

2. Panther Ausf. G

1. King Tiger

Let's say you're the newly crowned dictator of Switzerland and, having been caught up in the excitement of the war, you want to field a professional army. You can choose to equip your army with any existing tank designs. Would you really pick those five to fight in their respective eras?

Too bad that the Ausf. F Schmalturm never got produced though since it would have been even better.

Crappiest tanks in WW2 that were mass produced and that russians and some others think were good tanks.

5. T-34/85

4. T-34 model 1943

3. T-34 model 1942

2. T-34 model 1941

1. T-34 model 1940

How exactly were they bad tanks? The only one where the German contemporary can penetrate it from a greater range than it can penetrate the German contemporary is the T-34 mod. 1942 because the PzIV Ausf G came out, uparmored with 30mm extra armor bolted on.

Was the schmalturm turret even heavier than the stock one? It is too bad they didn't make it would of crippled even more Panthers with to much weight!

According to Jentz, the schmalturm was slightly lighter than the original Panther turret, yet provided better armor protection. It's funny, almost everyone else developed bigger turrets for their medium tanks so they could carry bigger guns (T-34/85, 76mm Sherman.) The Germans went the other direction and built a smaller turret. What they really needed was not a Panther with a smaller turret, but a Panther with a smaller hull. It's that exceptionally long glacis plate and over the track sponsons that add all the weight to that design. Anyway, from what I can gather from the Jentz book, the schmalturm would have been an improvement over the original turret, but it would not allowed for a bigger gun (88mm) without some significant changes.

Let's say you're the newly crowned dictator of Switzerland and, having been caught up in the excitement of the war, you want to field a professional army. You can choose to equip your army with any existing tank designs. Would you really pick those five to fight in their respective eras?

I would probably pick the Panther Ausf. G because more of it can be produced than of the King Tiger but the King Tiger is just so awesome and therefore it's no. 1.

According to Jentz, the schmalturm was slightly lighter than the original Panther turret, yet provided better armor protection. It's funny, almost everyone else developed bigger turrets for their medium tanks so they could carry bigger guns (T-34/85, 76mm Sherman.) The Germans went the other direction and built a smaller turret. What they really needed was not a Panther with a smaller turret, but a Panther with a smaller hull. It's that exceptionally long glacis plate and over the track sponsons that add all the weight to that design. Anyway, from what I can gather from the Jentz book, the schmalturm would have been an improvement over the original turret, but it would not allowed for a bigger gun (88mm) without some significant changes.

The turret ring was too small for the 88mm anyway so a larger turret would have made no difference without making a new hull with a larger turret ring.

What's pathetic about it ever hear of the battle of Kursk??? Life of a tank crew was days in that battle for Russians they threw everything in huge numbers but the German tanks were better in armor and pen they couldn't handle the numbers the Russian threw at them but the Russian tankers paid dearly for the victory

And in the battle of Kursk many Russian tanks went to battle not even painted to get them on the front lines. Netflix has a documentary on the battle check it out the battle field consisted of thousands of tanks over a 75 mile front largest armored combat fight in history. It started at Kursk ended in berlin